Robinson Barreirinhas said more than a thousand companies involved in ‘crime’ would be classified as persistent debtors if the blueprint sent to Congress was approved
BRASILIA – The secretary of IRS, Robinson Barreirinhas, said that the persistent debtor project sent by the economic team is the best proposal to discuss the topic. To the Congressthere is also a complementary law that deals with the matter.
“Persistent debtor is not about taxpayers, but about criminals opening a company to get into debt. There are 1,100 companies involved in crime and they would be classified as persistent debtors,” Barreirinhas said.
The “debtor in default” is the entrepreneur who uses it default as a business strategy, that is, it acts in bad faith. The text sent to the Chamber by the government, however, encounters resistance from some sectors, such as the fuel sector, and also conflicting pressure from groups operating illegally.
“Saying that a persistent debtor is treated with the supplementary law is equivalent to not approving it. We intend to approve the persistent debtor project with the ordinary law. We are convinced that our persistent debtor law is better. Sectors’ resistance to the persistent debtor law encourages us to move forward.”
Zero disputes
Barreirinhas said that the Revenue Agency has launched the New Zero Litigation notice, to renegotiate taxpayers’ debts with tax authorities of up to R$50 million. The new phase of the program, launched last year, will begin next Monday, the 1st, and will last four months.
According to the secretary, Zero Litigation is a form of tax settlement, membership, in which the rules are formatted and interested parties enter via notice. For Barreirinhas, tax transactions are the best tool to regularize the baggage of problems between tax authorities and taxpayers.
“Compliance is the future. The logic of compliance is to treat good taxpayers well. The tax operation is for us the most powerful tool to regularize the past and prepare the future of the relationship between the financial administration and taxpayers”, stated the secretary at a press conference meeting in Brasilia.
In addition to membership operations, there are also single operations, carried out by large contributors, which are analyzed on a case-by-case basis, and larger thesis operations.
Marcio Gonçalves, deputy secretary of registration and replacement service, reminded that a transaction is an agreement and both parties (tax and business) must yield to prevent or put an end to disputes.
Discouragement for good payers
Barreirinhas denied that the reissue of Zero Litigation is a disincentive to paying taxes on time compared to large refinancing programs, such as Refis. According to him, the tax operation allows companies at risk of “bankruptcy” to regularize themselves.
“The operation only has advantages in terms of reducing the value of bad debts. The company does not have the ability to pay more. It is not a disincentive as long as the program is well calibrated. That is why the federal government has stopped carrying out large programs of refinancing, these are a disincentive for good payers.”
Barreirinhas also avoided saying whether he expects the expected revenue of R$31 billion from tax settlements this year to be achieved through deals with state companies. According to the secretary, it will be possible to access the new Zero Dispute phase until the end of July and the main amount relating to the payment will have to be paid in a maximum of five installments.
“That’s why we haven’t changed the projection yet,” he said, adding that the projection is still conservative, as no new macroeconomic parameters have been applied.
Source: Terra
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